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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 1

1. Holocaust
2. Why are American textbooks so verbose?
3. May You Help Me?
4. Cats, drawings of
5. New York Times Crossword
6. Racial attitudes toward children
7. multiple names for Middle Eastern figures
8. Who in the Obama Administration determines U.S. WTO policy?

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 2

1. Countries that have never lost a war
2. Odin
3. Two questions about Julius Caesar (the play)
4. Battle of Reimerswaal
5. FX Question
6. EU President

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 3

1. Ted Bundy Lawyer?
2. World Series -- 3 losses followed by 4 wins
3. Why is communism thought to be a bad thing?
4. No girlfriend
5. Unaware Prophesied Messiahs, Saviors, Redeemers, etc II
6. Red roses
7. Playing classical music on the piano
8. Nazi Concentration camp

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 4

1. Hiroshima apology?
2. Negative view in U.S. multiculturalism
3. Negative view in Canada multiculturalism
4. Turkic World in Toronto
5. John II's nephew?
6. John I of Avesnes
7. did Hitler know allied countries would consider his murderous actions evil?
8. Looking for the outcome of a legal case (if it's publicly known)
9. payment
10. Title and Composer of Music in NFL TV Follies

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 5

1. Multilingual legislatures
2. Orlando Navy Exchange
3. Unable to afford shoes
4. School comic book
5. Inaccuracy of Sub-Saharan African Population
6. Does Yoda have the FOXP2 gene?
7. Question about Jeffrey Dahmer's conviction

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 6

1. Picture of Thomas Pynchon
2. Name that magazine article
3. cult religion
4. US military deployment policy

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 7

1. What were the basic personality types listed by Charles Fourier?
2. Business law: What does (KG) mean in bankruptcy filings?
3. Billionaire lifestyle
4. Lewis Carroll quote
5. Guardianship of Floris V (1258-1266)
6. Richard Ramirez's execution date?

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 8

1. Reasons for moonshine being illegal? (in the U.S.)
2. Baron and Count of Thurn and Taxi
3. Einstein's last theorem
4. Klimt
5. What was my salary in the year 19XX worth now, in the UK?
6. Which Saint Rose?
7. Iambic pentameter
8. death sentence and president approval
9. Christian Democratic Parties
10. Antigone

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 9

1. Begrüßungsgeld
2. what is the relationship between truth and reality?
3. Romantic friendship
4. World War II British submarine sonar operators
5. Sstock markets
6. Humans arguing with God
7. State Visit
8. Evolution
9. god
10. DC Sniper's Execution
11. TICAD
12. crackdown on fakes

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 10

1. Citizenship of the Queen
2. Creeds
3. Another question about DC Sniper
4. middle-eastern and white american interracial marriage

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 11

1. History of neutering
2. Gastric pressure needed to vomit
3. Legality of To Catch a Predator
4. Very interesting geography question
5. Another tantalizing geography question
6. One more challenging Geography teaser
7. Most comprehensive search engine for second-hand books in the UK?
8. When did the changes in pre-trial Small Claims Court procedure in England and Wales come into effect?
9. Place in Lincolnshire, name of Tid
10. Hitler
11. Refusing to testify in death penalty cases
12. The separation of church and state
13. Gelatin, whey, and lard vs. Islam
14. Black immigrants in the USA
15. Communism

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 12

1. The Difference Between Sunni and Shia Islam
2. Another challenging geography question
3. symbol
4. Show trials
5. Sacha Distel
6. Victor Hugo's religion
7. How do you call something that you assume to be true, but it is not a dogma for you?
8. Who are the Elfs of Tolkien
9. food prices

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 13

1. What is the correct number of figures in Rodin's “Gates of Hell”?
2. History of Volkswagen
3. Interest rates and money flow
4. Health Insurance Costs in the 1960s
5. Man and God
6. 380 villages destroyed by Ottoman Syrian Druze?
7. Ships used in the Battle of Lake Erie
8. History: how horrible was it?
9. Newton’s dark secret

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 14

1. Town
2. Greek/Roman statue copy?
3. What percentage of people stopped from committing suicide make a second attempt?
4. american college costs

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 15

1. Richest prostitute
2. Infante Pedro
3. Civil war in 60's America
4. How pauper burials are organised
5. question about the law
6. Swiss automobile laws
7. GDP + PPP
8. Late blooming millionaires and billionaires
9. Where to download historical daily values of UK stock market indicies?
10. Trying to find mining court case
11. Third Reich as successor state

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 16

1. Business Question
2. Origins of football
3. Legitimacy
4. Highest paid prostitute
5. Picture of Meister Eckhart
6. templetax in the present times
7. What's the average cost of storefront rental at US airports?
8. Very challenging geography question
9. US-PRC trade imbalace
10. Odinga and Moi story in the 80s
11. Description of the library in the Doge's Palace, Venice
12. Literacy rate

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 17

1. Polygyny in the Bible
2. update on benefit concert series
3. History of the ball and chain
4. Jade
5. Art style in poster
6. Tutsis and Hutu
7. Where is Mike Nifong now, late 2009?
8. Beauty-subjective or by choice?
9. What would happen here?
10. Seeking references for article improvement
11. What aspects of mainstream Neoclassical economic theory does the Austrian School reject?
12. Addiction, a cure that is lasting.
13. Art question

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 18

1. King George III
2. Jesus teaching at a Temple
3. Can A professional Accounting Qualification can be considered as equal to Masters Degree
4. Azeri anthem
5. need an interesting building
6. LGBT and crime
7. Most Inbred European Royal Family
8. Films in the public domain

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 19

1. Regulation D
2. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Criticism of Liberalism?
3. Residency and public records
4. Just Compensation in Kelo v. City of New London
5. Fair exchange between buyer and seller - so how come some people accumulate wealth?
6. economics
7. Coughing
8. Victorian Revivals
9. Presidential Middle Names
10. Are there any states or countries where the seat of government is not in that state or country?
11. Can diplomatic bags be sniffed?
12. Maritimes (Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick) Article
13. Whatever happened to Learning Machines?
14. Tiger Woods
15. What is that rhombus-shaped strip of land between Iraq and Saudi Arabia in this map? (just west of Kuwait)

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 20

1. Ismailis
2. The Language of Wine Reviews
3. Deleted Yoga Articles?
4. Early Black-rights campaigner
5. General knowledge question on capital city
6. Another geography question
7. Link between St.Louis IX's 5th son and the Royal Dutch family De Graeff
8. Herman Van Rompuy
9. Is Obama Conservative?
10. Correct colors in the Flag of Bhutan

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 21

1. Corporate Legal rights
2. Bar Club discrimination
3. Heinrich von Treitschke
4. another geography question
5. Yet another general knowledge question
6. Was my grandmother jewish?
7. Book/website on modern US life in the tradition of Alexis de Tocqueville
8. The Christian Bible is the most successful book of all time

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 22

1. Richest & most qualified wikipedian
2. Changing a patron saint?
3. update on international societies
4. Which empire's imperial expansion resulted in the most colonial deaths between 1492-1914
5. Why is science not kept secret?
6. Ferrara, Modena, Reggio and Parma
7. Tik-Tok of Oz and wireless telephones
8. Bondage
9. VIP and VVIP
10. year naming

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 23

1. Graham
2. Eugenics today
3. 4 Island Groups
4. NPOV analysis of US federal legislation
5. Inheritance for pets
6. Copyrighted US state laws?
7. Victorian Revivals
8. "Jacksonian mode of discourse"
9. Please indulge my speculation for a moment (naturalistic view of monotheism)
10. How does special education use funding they receive from the gov?
11. What is the best book on Alexander the great?
12. Galileo's fingers
13. Science-fiction novel with literary merit?
14. How could the US fine an overseas cartel?

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 24

1. Old "high-tech" font
2. 10 plauges of Egypt
3. Macabre mishaps at sea (literary?)
4. Interesting geography/history question
5. Free money promotions by online casinos

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 25

1. Largest parliament buildings
2. Using animation to recreate news?
3. Is this really Romanesque?
4. geeks,freeks,and freekshow a famous artist
5. Psychological effect I: suicide on the train track
6. Psychological effect II: trauma after torture
7. Soundtrack on this video
8. Searching for a quotation
9. Germany question
10. Searching for a quote on writing

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 26

1. Tashan Family- Turkey
2. ACORN
3. Sherlock Holmes' sexuality
4. Funding a genocide

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 27

1. Muslims and Homosexuality
2. Difference between personal per capita income and per capita income
3. UK law/crime question
4. I have an interest in this field, what is it called?
5. Hungarian Forint *Certificates*?
6. psychology question
7. Port city moved to another country
8. The Women liberation reform of Peter the great
9. Battle of Magnesia

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 28

1. The First Indo-European Tribe in Europe
2. Tartars of the Rhyn-Sands steppe (Nikolai Leskov)
3. Why do so many names of British branded medicinal products begin with the prefix "ben-"?
4. Name for type of joke

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 29

1. Does Islam forbid football?
2. exact date in 1980
3. Diana Spencer
4. Germany Double Summer Time in the Second World War
5. What name was J R R Tolkien known by?
6. Map of International humanitarian aid given, by country
7. Song
8. Christadelphian and Advent Christian Churches in Sydney

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 30

1. Research on Social Interaction / Craving
2. Roll/Role Credits
3. Sense of Time and Space when driving
4. Swiss judges/neutrality
5. Epic battles in 16th and 17th centuries
6. Looking for good fiction/non-fiction about female messiahs
7. Importance of good grades after some years
8. Article on and term for "reading to" (e.g. children)
9. ambassadorial appointments
10. Asian Indians and US Born Pacific Asians
11. Marcus Baebius Tamphilus (tribune of the plebs 103 BC)